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From 1763 To 1775

  • Yoel Davis

Yoel Davis

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Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid / The Met

    The painting is called "The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy" and is located in the Palacio Real in Madrid.
    The painting is a fresco, and is located in a small room adjacent to the throne room.
    The painting is a fresco, and is located in a small room adjacent to the throne room.

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris / The Met

    Greuze insisted on submitting a painting to the Académie Royale that would gain him entry as a history painter, resulting in numerous false starts including this ambitious but unfinished canvas.
    It evokes the goddess Danaë, but may represent Aegina, daughter of the river god Aeopus who was visited by Jupiter and carried off by him in the form of an eagle.
    In 1767, Greuze wrote to Diderot that he "should very much like to paint a woman totally nude without offending modesty," perhaps in reference to this work.
    In 1769, however, Greuze finally submitted a different subject, his ill-fated Septimus Severus and Caracalla, today in the Musée du Louvre.

The Departure of the Gondola

Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice / The Met

    This painting is about life in Venice.
    The artist was in Spain with his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, when he painted this.
    The painting is exceptional because of the delicate paint handling.

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